It is a dark time in any journalist's career when their doubt is cast over their credibility. More so for a well-known and respected news man for many decades like Brian Williams. Since 2004, Williams has been the face of NBC Nightly News. However, he has now been put under six-month probation without pay as the lead anchor and editor of the show, after it has come to light that he misrepresented himself when he covered the Iraq war in 2003.
As it turns out, for more than a decade, Williams maintained, in a few varying versions of the story, that he was covering the war from a Chinook helicopter in Iraq when it came under fire. Sometimes he said that they even took in a grenade and went down and he feared for his life. However, veterans, and even the pilot of the chopper he was in, have come forward to debunk his story, saying that he only witnessed a Chinook ahead of him go under fire.
